Blue Mercedes

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Blue Mercedes is a pop music duo from London, England, made up of David Titlow and Duncan Millar. Titlow was infamous for wearing purple shorts with the words "Funk Ass" printed on them, whilst Millar played a large portable synth with double keyboards — they dubbed their musical style 'Street Latin Wolff'. Their only Hot 100 hit was "I Want To Be Your Property," which climbed to #66 in 1988 and spent four weeks at #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. They had two more dance chart entries in 1988.

After releasing the single "That Beauty Is You", they evolved into indie dance band, Nixon, and released 'The Rolling Stones gone baggy' sound of "Sweet Temptation". A second single was recorded and manufactured by MCA records, a cover version of the Sex Pistol's "Submission" with trippy cover artwork by Designers Republic, however this was never released and seven inch copies of this track are an extremely rare find. Nixon also remixed the Blur song "Bad Day" from their first album for Food Records, whilst the mix was rejected by the band a mislaid DAT of the song was picked up by unscrupulous bootleggers and released as a white label twelve inch, also very rare.

David Titlow then went onto form indie rock band Heave who signed to Warners subsidiary Radar Records in the early nineties releasing the singles "Suna/12XU" and "Pig Pretty" (on 7 inch pink vinyl) they followed this with the album "Scaramanga" which was produced by Bryce Goggin and released in both the UK and Japan.

Today, David Titlow is a successful fashion and music photographer.

[edit] Charts

Singles - The Official UK Singles Chart / Millward Brown (United Kingdom)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
Oct 1987	"I Want to be your Property"	The Official UK Singles Chart	23
Feb 1988	"See Want Must Have"	The Official UK Singles Chart	56
JUL 88	"Love is the Gun"	The Official UK Singles Chart	46
Nov 88	"Treehouse"	The Official UK Singles Chart	n/a
Oct 89	"That Beauty is You"	The Official UK Singles Chart	n/a
Oct 90	"Sweet Temptation"*	The Official UK Singles Chart	n/a

• as NIXON [MCA Records NXN 1]

Album - The Official UK Albums Chart / Millward Brown (United Kingdom)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1988	"Rich and Famous"	The Official UK Albums Chart	n/a

[edit] See also

• List of Number 1 Dance Hits (United States)
• List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart